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“Why did I even want this job?” Toon POTUS 45 asks himself in the first trailer for Season 2 of Showtime’s Our Cartoon President. “Oh yeah, Obama made fun of me once.” (Insert “mirth certificate” gag here.) Watch the clip above.
The premium cable net also set a May 12 premiere date for the show from EP Stephen Colbert…

Given that late-night is the television daypart delivering more political jabs per minute than any other, it was something of a surprise that a Produced By: New York panel on Saturday, featuring four current executive producers of top shows in the arena, stayed safely away from politics — until the very end. In fact…

As if Donald Trump’s rally in Nashville on Tuesday weren’t cartoonish enough, Showtime has set a July 15 premiere date for the remaining seven episodes of Our Cartoon President‘s first season. The premium cabler also released a new trailer, which you can check out above.
Quick gag: “Why did I even want this job?” toon…

Michael Wolff stole all his “Fire and Fury” material from Showtime’s new animated series Our Cartoon President, exec producer Stephen Colbert joked Saturday of Wolff’s blockbuster book claiming President Donald Trump’s closest advisers question his fitness for office.
"There is nothing in the book that's not in our…

Showtime will premiere its animated half-hour series Our Cartoon President, from Stephen Colbert and Chris Licht, on Feburary 11. The series’ launch airs at 8 PM ahead of the premium cabler’s Season 7 premiere of Homeland at 9 PM.
Not coincidentally, President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union…

In the walk-up to Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night special, Democracy's Series Finale: Who's Going To Clean Up This Sh*t?, Tom Purcell's and The Late Show creative team is having to prep three scenarios. In one, the reality TV star Colbert has described as an Untrustworthy Tangerine looks to be White House bound…

UPDATE with more details: On the eve of the New York primary, Hillary Clinton stopped by Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show last night.But the appearance was less Colbert and more a textbook slick late-night comedy bit, in which Clinton participated in a pre-taped out-of-theater bit about how to eat cheesecake in a…

Today's announcement that morning-news hot shot Chris Licht will become showrunner for Stephen Colbert’s topical late-night comedy show is the result of conversations that started around the time of Colbert’s post-Super Bowl broadcast.
At the heart of those conversations between CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves and <a href="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/late-show-cobert-logo.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-1201518648 nofollow" target="_blank"…